Congress has no Constitutional authority over health care

Congress has been "vested" with very specific and very limited powers by our Constitution. The powers detailed in Article 1 of the Constitution are unambiguous and were intended to be the entirety of the powers of Congress. Article 1 was NOT intended to
be a list of suggestions!

The reason our founders documented the vested powers to the level of detail they did, is because they intended to keep Congress very well controlled and with very limited powers.

High health care costs are symptom of federal meddling

We are blessed with one of the finest health care systems in the world. If we would keep the federal government out of it, we could make it an even better system. Obviously, good health care is not free. Why would anyone assume that the federal governmen
can confiscate our money, but yet somehow provide better medical care for us than we could if we just kept our own money in the first place?

Everyone deserves access to affordable health care--which is clearly not happening today. However, forcing
private hospitals to treat indigent patients for free is not a solution.

We Oregonians are a kind and generous people. We are not going to stand idly by if our neighbors are sick and in need of help. The Oregon Health Plan will spend some $14 billion
over the next two years helping 350,000 Oregonians who do not have private health insurance. If the federal government [was kept out], there would be plenty of money left in our pockets so we could do an even better job taking care of our own.